Polymer Clay Master Class

Author: Judy Belcher
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0307965759
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Learn the Signature Techniques of Top Polymer Clay Artists Polymer Clay Master Class offers you a close-up look at the creative processes of eleven acclaimed polymer clay artists as they share their expertise with one another and you. Judy Belcher and Tamara Honaman bring together these talented artists for the first time, offering their individual techniques and then documenting how they inspire and challenge one another in the creation of collaborative pieces. In five lessons with sixteen guided projects, you will gain an understanding of the polymer clay skills you’ve always wanted to master, such as: • Creating with sculpture, canework, and imitative techniques • Altering the surface with carving, transfers, imprint, and silk screening • Incorporating mixed media, such as metal, wood, and fiber • Designing using cold connections, hollow and lightweight forms, kinetic construction, and jewelry-finishing techniques • Pushing the boundaries of the Skinner Blend technique • Collaborating with fellow artists to open up new creative possibilities With contributors including Leslie Blackford, Cynthia Tinapple, Lindly Haunani, Sarah Shriver, and many others, you have a front-row seat to the world of innovative polymer clay art. Challenge your assumptions about methods, style, and collaboration, and get ready to start on your own creative journey. Also available as an ebook

Polymer Clay Color Inspirations

Author: Lindly Haunani
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823015017
Category : Color in art
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Renowned for their courses and workshops on color, the authors offer instruction and inspiration that focuses on polymer clay as a learning tool that crafters can use to explore their own color instincts and preferences. Each chapter investigates a color principle supported by a jewelry project.

Polymer Clay & Miniature Master Class Series

Author: Evi Boyle
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511447843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
This is the third in the Polymer Clay Master Class Series and still focusing on clay techniques it also draws you into the world of miniature art. With over 25 years in the world of theatre and a Masters Degree in Polymer Clay I have created this book to carefully guide you through a vast range of techniques and projects that when pulled together always lead to stunning results.

Polymer Clay 101

Author: Kim Otterbein
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 1589234707
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
"Beginner's guide to crafting with polymer clay, teaching all the basic techniques through easy projects. Includes DVD-ROM"--Provided by publisher.

Polymer Clay Global Perspectives

Author: Cynthia Tinapple
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823085910
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Explore the World--in Polymer Clay! Polymer artists are connected like never before. As the acclaimed curator of the popular blog PolymerClayDaily.com, Cynthia Tinapple brings together 115 diverse artists from around the world to showcase the work of this new international community. Polymer Clay Global Perspectives invites you to explore the trends and cutting-edge styles that are influencing the future of this medium. In this masterful collection, you'll find: · Tips to create meaningful art that reflects your personality and vision · Behind-the-scenes profiles of 13 innovative artists in their studios · Step-by-step projects by contributors who share their signature methods, such as mokume gane,extruded canes, and adapted glass-blowing techniques · Galleries showcasing the best of the best polymer work in jewelry, miniatures, sculpture, and much more With artists including Kim Korringa, Shay Aaron, and Fabiola Perez offering their expertise, you'll find endless inspiration to take your art to the next level. Begin your own journey through the new landscape of contemporary polymer. A world of possibilities awaits.

Polymer Clay Master Class Series

Author: Evi Boyle
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500327217
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
This is the second book in the Polymer Clay Master Class Series and once again it is specifically designed around your skill and comfort level. This book is designed to lead on from the last, packed with lots of new projects, hints and tips. It still has the same comfortable layout because from your feedback on my last book you seemed to like it. Every step is shown and clearly written, so there is no reason why a beginner can't be just as good at producing the same result as an expert with a little practice. At the end of the day every book I produce is created to ease you into the various processes that allow you to work at a speed you are comfortable with, steadily pushing you that little bit further with each new page, whilst still only using the materials and tools that you will need for the sections and the projects that you are undertaking. Tutorials will manly be focused around the skills you have learnt in each book but those skills will be transferable to your own future creations. You'll also see lots of fun examples spread throughout the book, examples which you are more than free to copy. Polymer clay is a great clay, in particular it is a fantastic clay for the hobbyist and the professional because it is clean and easy to use. It is also wonderfully versatile because it can be cooked at home, unlike most traditional clay. I've said this many times, that's why I fell in love with it and hopefully you will too with the help of these books.

Polymer Clay Surface Design Recipes

Author: Ellen Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616739249
Category : Polymer clay craft
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
"This book will teach you how to create a wonderful array of unique surface designs, each made by combining day with other media such as inks, paints, and powders, and other tools such as stamps, brushes, stencils, brayers, and wire. Starting with a comprehensive overview onworking with day, the book then offers more than 100 surface recipes and variations with complete details about how the effect was achieved."-- Back cover.

The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects

Author: Donna Kato
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 9780823013623
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Polymer clay has grown and grown and grown in popularity since the publication of Donna Kato’s best-selling The Art of Polymer Clay in 1997. And there have been so many technical advances, too. Now poly-diva Donna Kato presents an all-new look at one of crafters’ all-time favorite mediums. Donna Kato’s Polymer Clay Innovations begins with the essentials of polymer clay, including its working properties, plus tools, curing, safety recommendations, and color blending (with full information on the now-indispensable Skinner Blend). Photo-packed chapters focus on exciting projects—beads, bracelets, pins, pendants, and boxes--and showcase new techniques, including image transfers, surface treatments such as stencils, stamps, paints, and inks, sculpting, inclusions, special effects, and finishing. Finished pieces by some of the biggest names in polymer clay, including Kathleen Dustin, Pier Voulkos, and Nan Roche, plus Donna Kato herself, offer ideas and inspiration.

Patterns in Polymer

Author: Julie Picarello
Publisher: Kalmbach Books
ISBN: 1627000674
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
With her unmatched eye for color, color mixing and layering, well-known artist and fan favorite Julie Picarello helps beginners and advanced polymer artisans design, texture and finish gorgeous art beads using relatively simple techniques. In-depth introduction sections cover basics, color inspiration and recipes, and needed tools and materials. The book includes 7 mini projects and 10 finished jewelry projects, while callouts at the beginning of each project let the readers know exactly what specialized techniques will be learned. It’s the color that makes polymer clay truly exciting, and this book uses color like you’ve never seen it before.

Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay

Author: Katherine Dewey
Publisher: Potter Craft
ISBN: 0770434657
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Katherine Dewey's expressive and elegantly detailed sculptures enchant all who see them. With the magical medium of polymer clay and this book, you can follow in her footsteps. Thorough instructions supported by more than 400 step-by-step color photos and 200 detailed drawings cover the entire process of sculpting realistic figures, from selecting clay and gathering essential tools to the basics of modeling the human figure, to incorporating poses, facial expressions, ethnic and gender subtleties, costumes, and painted finishing touches. Easy-to-read maps of the figure illustrate the landmarks of the body, while scale diagrams indicate the simple shapes hidden within the human form, as well as how to combine and model those shapes. For anyone who loves fantasy, romance, nature—or sophisticated crafting—this book is a must-have.